Monday, February 16, 2015

Anish Giri and Hikaru Nakamura 2800 in Tblisi and Zurich 2015

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This is surely the week of 2800. First Anish Giri achieved in from a win against Peter Svidler in FIDE Grandprix Tblisi 2015. He become the ninth person on the planet to ever passed chess rating of 2800. A day later, US chess player as we known, Hikaru Nakamura made it look easy to get 2800 by defeating Sergey Karjakin in round 3 Zurich Chess Challenge 2015.

We are not only celebrating 10 players that ever cross this mark, but I think, this is also the only week where we have five chess players with 2800 elo in live rating. Check chess live rating, February 17th 2015:

List of best rating ever by chess player:

Zurich Chess Challenge are on going, after 3 rounds, Hikaru Nakamura stayed on top standing. He is on the top form, continuity from Gibraltar 2015, get 2.5/3, with Vishy Anand on 2/3. In round 3 Hikaru defeated Sergey Karjakin in an opening battle, where the line should have been drawn, but Karjakin just simply forget the theory. Previously, Aronian also fell into opening preparation by Anand.

On other note, Viktor "Terrible" Korchnoi and Wolfgang Ulhmann played inspiring chess with 100% decisive results. Four rounds of rapid play being held, and the score is 2-2, both player won 2 games.

In FIDE Grandprix Tblisi 2015, it's still early to see who exception in this 12 players event. Tomashevsky, Grischuk and Anish Giri are players with 1.5/2.